CHICAGO — A South Side all-boys Catholic high school is helping to usher in a new approach to secondary education curriculum.

Brother Rice has opened their doors to kids with special needs to learn alongside the rest of the student body.

The innovative approach to learning is called the Mt. Sion program and has been part of the school’s curriculum since last year.

Matt Prunkle is the dean of student life and director of Mt. Sion.

“The Mt Sion program is a special education inclusion program that works off of students who have special needs through inclusion in classrooms, particularly theology, history and crusader seminar,” he said. “(Students) work with a peer mentor model which is a one-to-one model with classmates of their volunteer. They work as kind of a teacher aide.”

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